Papers / Chapters

Özyürek, A., Zwitserlood, I., and Perniss, P. (accepted). Locative expressions in signed languages: A view from Turkish Sign Language (TID). Linguistics Special Issue on locatives.

Özyürek, A. and Perniss, P. (to appear). Event representation in sign language: A crosslinguistic perspective. In: Bohnemeyer, J. and Pederson, E. (Eds.), Event Representation in Language: Encoding Events at the Language-Cognition Interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Perniss, P. and Zeshan, U. (2008). Possessive and existential constructions in Kata Kolok (Bali). In: Zeshan, U. and Perniss, P. (Eds.), Possessive and existential constructions in sign languages. (Sign Language Typology Series No. 2). Nijmegen: Ishara Press. [download]

Perniss, P. and Zeshan, U. (2008). Possessive and existential constructions: Introduction and overview. In: Zeshan, U. and Perniss, P. (Eds.), Possessive and existential constructions in sign languages. (Sign Language Typology Series No. 2). Nijmegen: Ishara Press. [download]

Perniss, P. and Özyürek, A. (2008). Constructing action and locating referents: A comparison of German and Turkish Sign Language narratives. In: Quer, J. (Ed.), Signs of the time. Selected papers from TISLR 8. Hamburg: Signum Press. [download]

Perniss, P. (2007). Achieving spatial coherence in German Sign Language narratives: The use of classifiers and perspective. Lingua 117(7): 1315-1338. [download]

Perniss, P., Pfau, R., and Steinbach, M. (2007). Can't you see the difference? Sources of variation in sign language structure. In: Perniss, P., Pfau, R., and Steinbach, M. (Eds.), Visible variation: Cross-linguistic studies in sign language structure. Berlin: Mouton. [download]

Perniss, P. (2007). Locative functions of simultaneous perspective constructions in German Sign Language narratives. In: Vermeerbergen, M., Leeson, L., and Crasborn, O. (Eds.), Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and function. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 27-54. [download]

 

Books

Perniss, P., Pfau, R., and Steinbach, M. (Eds.) (2007). Visible variation: Cross-linguistic studies in sign language structure. Berlin: Mouton. [link]

Zeshan, U. and Perniss, P. (Eds.) (2008). Possessive and existential constructions in sign languages. (Sign Language Typology Series No. 2). Nijmegen: Ishara Press. [link]

 

Dissertation

Perniss, P. (2007). Space and Iconicity in German Sign Language (DGS). MPI Series in Psycholinguistics 45, Radboud University Nijmegen. [download] [cover]